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<h1 class="sectionedit1" id="chart_manual_install">Chart Manual Install</h1>
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<a href="chart_downloader_tab.html" class="wikilink1" title="opencpn:opencpn_user_manual:charts:chart_downloader_tab">Chart Downloader</a> is the easier, preferred way to install charts, but at times manual techniques are useful.
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For this example, we will use the freely distributed NOAA US charts. <a href="http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/" rel="nofollow">NOAA&#039;s Chart Download website</a> Bring this page up in your browser. On the left, 
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Click on Download <strong>ENC</strong>s (electronic navigational charts for Vector Style charts
<a href="http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/learn_diffRNC_ENC.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/learn_diffRNC_ENC.html" rel="nofollow"> ENC (vs Raster Charts)</a>
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Download your desired region. For this example, we selected the State of California, CA_ENCs.zip 
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<img src="../opencpn/manual/chartman-1.tok.69be5e_w.450.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="450" />
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Unzip all those folders (US1EEZ1M, etc…) to a location on your hard drive. For this example we used <strong>My Documents/charts</strong>.
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Start OpenCPN, and point it to your chart directory <strong>Settings &gt; Charts &gt; Chart Files &gt; Add Directory</strong> (remember <strong>My Documents</strong> is actually something like <strong>C:\Users\user-name\Documents\Charts</strong>)
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Click <strong>Select Folder</strong>
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Tick boxes “<strong>Scan Charts and Update Database</strong>” and “<strong>Force Full Database Rebuild</strong>”
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<img src="../opencpn/manual/chartman_2.tok.a07779_w.450.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="450" />
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Fix up a few of your Chart settings, mine are below, more info <a href="vector_display_tab.html" class="wikilink1" title="opencpn:opencpn_user_manual:charts:vector_display_tab">Vector Display Tab</a>
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<img src="../opencpn/manual/chartman_3.tok.66533e_w.450.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="450" />
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​Check your new ENC charts into the Chart Downloader to stay current with Chart Updates, more info  <a href="chart_downloader_tab.html" class="wikilink1" title="opencpn:opencpn_user_manual:charts:chart_downloader_tab">Chart Downloader Tab</a>
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Go to <strong>Settings &gt; Charts &gt; Chart Downloader</strong>  Click <strong>Add</strong> and navigate to the section that you downloaded. For example it is <strong>USA &gt; ENC &gt; by States &gt; CA - California</strong>
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<img src="../opencpn/manual/chartman_4.tok.16de12_w.450.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="450" />
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You should also hit the <strong>Select Folder</strong> button and navigate to where you put your ENC charts. Once you hit <strong>OK</strong> on that window, a list of all your charts should populate in the bottom half of the window.
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<img src="../opencpn/manual/chartman_5.tok.86e379_w.450.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="450" />
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Click <strong>Update All</strong>, and your charts will update, and continue to update.
that&#039;s it!
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